This course offers an action-oriented introduction to Giving Voice to Values (or GVV), an exciting new approach to values-driven leadership development in the workplace, in business education and in life.
GVV is not about persuading people to be more ethical, but instead it starts from the premise that most of us already want to act on our values, but that we also want to feel that we have a reasonable chance of doing so effectively. Through positive, real life examples, pre-scripting, rehearsal and peer coaching, GVV builds the skill, the confidence and likelihood that we will act on our values more often and more successfully. Based on research and practice, with over 1,000 pilots in educational settings and companies on all seven continents, GVV helps answer the questions: “What if I were going to act on my values? What would I say and do? How could I be most effective?”
You will come away from this course with an expanded toolkit, as well as practice, in a variety of methods and techniques for voicing and enacting your own values and principles. You will develop and practice leadership skills in "peer coaching” with other learners. Through cases and stories based on recognizable workplace, classroom and life values conflicts, you will apply the GVV techniques and “re-frames”, expanding your repertoire for possible action as well as identifying and rehearsing responses that are likely to be most effective. Through this practice, you will gain greater confidence and competence in voicing and enacting your values effectively.

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Apr 12, 2019

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It was a great and enjoyable course. There was a lot of things to learn and implement.

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Developing Scripts and Action Plans

Welcome to Week 3! During this week you'll start to build a "tool-kit" for ways to feel more confident and comfortable in voicing your values. You'll discover how to develop scripts and action plans. First, you'll explore the GVV pillar, Voice. This pillar helps you understand how you can examine the different ways to build your capacity for voice and the variety of forms it can take. Next, you'll be introduced to the final pillar, Reasons and Rationalizations. This pillar helps you understand how to anticipate the objections that you might face when trying to voice your values. By doing so, you can prepare and practice effective responses to these objections. Then you'll discover some of the challenges and opportunities you may face in voicing your values based on your level and position within an organization. Recognizing these challenges and opportunities can help you identify which levers you can use to address them. Two cases are provided to illustrate the point that you can find effective strategies for acting on your values at all levels of experience and authority. By the end of the module you will have identified tools that you can use to help you voice your values effectively. You'll use these newly acquired tools to revisit your Tale of Two Stories and craft a new ending.

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Mary Gentile

Creator/Director, Giving Voice To Values and Professor of Practice

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Welcome to week three of Ethical Leadership through Giving Voice to Values. So far in this course, you've learned about the impact of using an action focused approach to building values driven leadership skills, as opposed to approaching ethical issues as only an intellectual problem. Instead of viewing them as cognitive puzzles, you began to see them as implementation challenges and opportunities. Through the Tale of Two Stories exercise from week two, you saw that you're capable of enacting your values effectively, but that you might not always do so. And you developed your own taxonomy of enablers and disablers. This week you'll learn how to develop practical and effective scripts and literal action plans for acting on your values. You'll be introduced to the final two of the seven GVV pillars, Voice, and Reasons and Rationalizations. You'll explore the different ways to build your own capacity for voice, and the variety of forms that voice can take. And then you'll learn about four of the most common reasons and rationalizations that you might encounter when you begin to voice and act on your values. And you'll explore useful ways to counteract them. We'll talk about how your level and position within the organization may affect the constraints you face, and the levers you feel you can use for acting on your values. Case studies from two real life managers illustrate that, although they had different levels of experience and authority in their organizations, they both found effective strategies for acting on their values. Through these stories, we encourage you to think about the levers you can use when you voice your values no matter where you sit in your organization. And your assignment this week is to revisit your Tale of Two Stories exercise from week two. Armed with the scripting techniques and responses to the most common reasons in nationalizations that you learned about this week, you can craft a new ending, a sort of do-over for the time when you previously failed to effectively act on your values. And after completing the assignment, you'll receive feedback and suggestions from a few of your fellow learners. My hope is that this week's materials will help you develop constructive and practical ideas about how to respond and act on your values successfully, enjoy!